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Scream

Black Rose – Death

Totally AU. Please don’t kill me.

“Allen… No, please no…”

The rain pours, spreading the red color of the blood and soaking the cracked earth.

“Please, Allen! Wake up, wake up!”

Lavi shakes Allen, tries to wake him. His wide, frantic eye is filled with fear. How could this happen? He asks himself, as he hurries to save Allen from dying.

“Don’t worry, Allen… I-I’ll save you…” his voice croaks, as if he had used his voice too much. As if he overused it.

Allen shifts slightly, blood leaks out of his wound in his abdomen. His gloves are soaked brown-red from the blood, fingers clutching tightly onto the wound.

He coughs, blood spurts out.

“L-Lavi?” his weak voice manages to whisper, barely audible.

Amid the distant rumbling of a train and the crackling of the fire, Lavi shouldn’t be surprised he can still hear Allen but right now, he doesn’t care. All he cares about is getting Allen out alive.

“W-What is it, Beansprout?” he asks, shakily, “how are ya feeling?”

Allen tries to smile, but the blood on his face makes it worst. “I’ve been better,” he answers honestly, as though he does not realize he is dying, “how are you?”

Lavi should have laughed; Allen is the same still. “I-I’m fine… No worries,” Lavi answers, pushing harder onto the wound with his scarf, “it’ll be fine.”

“Y-Yeah…” Allen replies, coughs a little and adds more blood to his uniform. “L-Lavi?”

“What is it, Beansprout?”

“I… I’m a bit cold…” Allen coughs again, more violently this time.

Lavi worriedly nods, takes off his uniform coat and tries to wrap Allen in it as best he can without adding damage to the younger boy’s wound. “Right, tell me if you… feel funny…” he says, “help is on the way…”

But as he says that, he knows he’s lying. Allen is doomed, Lavi realizes, there is no way to save him.

They were stuck, buried in a cave, searching for the Innocence. What they hadn’t known was Akuma resided there. The two had killed off most of them save for one – a level three.

Allen should have easily destroyed the level three had it not been…

…for him, Lavi admits with shame. He had just gotten in the way and caused Allen his life.

“L-Lavi?”

Lavi looks up at Allen and crawls closer. “What is it? Cold?”

Allen shakes his head weakly, emits tiny coughs. “H-ha…” he laughs feebly, “no… Just wondering… what that light over… there is…”

“W-What?” Lavi asks, alarmed by Allen’s mention of this light. “Allen, there is no light except for this fire.”

“It’s very… pretty…”

Lavi’s breathing becomes faster with panic. “Allen…? Don’t… please don’t go. Please…” he says.

“Lavi, it’s getting bigger…”

“Allen, please!”

Lavi’s eyes is filled with the damn salty liquid, he curses, wipes a few angrily away. “Please…” he pleads, more to himself.

“Lavi…” Allen says. He slowly shifts his head over to Lavi’s direction. “I’ve… always… disliked… redheads…”

He closes his eyes and smiles. “But you… seem to be… the exception… Lavi…” He takes one last breath and his chest stops rising.

Lavi is left alone in the dark. He screams.

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